empty whippet box posted:

*as gunshots ring out all around me, sitting in a court of law*

"I think that we should consider possibly restricting who can buy guns somewhat"

*crowd gasps, someone pulls out a gun and shoots me*

*bullets begin literally raining from the sky*

judge: "HOW DARE YOU! I SENTENCE YOU TO DEATH FOR DARING TO SUGGEST THIS!"

*I slump over in the witness chair already dead*

*the sound of court is drowned out by gunfire*

ben shapino posted:

yeah but he thinks it's bad

Scam Likely posted:

Looks like my wife has it. We're both experiencing the same symptoms actually, but my rapid test results were negative. We're holding out a little hope that hers was a false positive. The Pfizer vaccine seems to be mitigating any symptoms really well, feels like a mild summer cold as we quarantine.

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

I think a lot about... you know, if it hadn't been for Covid, there's a good chance Trummy Boyo would still be president

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

I think a lot about... you know, if it hadn't been for Covid, there's a good chance Trummy Boyo would still be president

empty whippet box posted:

which would have had literally zero effect on policy regarding covid, since both biden and trump's covid plan is 'let's do nothing and see what happens'

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Biden is at least relentlessly pushing vaccines.

Trump was not until now, and since he convinced his followers that they don't need it, they now turned on him when he says they should get it.

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

It’s pretty much the whole world, just in different ways

The US does seem to be going about it in the *dumbest* way, but other countries are being downright evil with fudging the numbers and pretending everything’s fine (like Mexico imo)

OgNar posted:

This isn't even stupidity. She spent at least a few years of schooling and working to get where she is/was.
She's not stupid.

Just loving brainwashed.

I don't get it. But over the years I've known a few Hare Krishnas and other people that are just purely brainwashed.
Intelligent otherwise but simply refuse common sense.

quote:

Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the right conceptual tools for the job. The result is an inability to make sense of what is happening and a resulting tendency to force phenomena into crude, distorting pigeonholes.

This is easiest to introduce with a tragic case. British high command during the First World War frequently understood trench warfare using concepts and strategies from the cavalry battles of their youth. As one of Field Marshal Douglas Haig’s subordinates later remarked, they thought of the trenches as ‘mobile operations at the halt’: ie, as fluid battle lines with the simple caveat that nothing in fact budged for years. Unsurprisingly, this did not serve them well in formulating a strategy: they were hampered, beyond the shortage of material resources, by a kind of ‘conceptual obsolescence’, a failure to update their cognitive tools to fit the task in hand.

LanceHunter posted:

Latest tactic for anti-vaxx arguments: Just make up outright lies about history!

Decon posted:

As opposed to their prior tactics... that being just make poo poo up in general.

I mean really the progenitor of the "Vax causes autism" bullshit just wholesale made poo poo up (and abused children) because he wanted to patent a competitor to the combined MMR vax.

empty whippet box posted:

which would have had literally zero effect on policy regarding covid, since both biden and trump's covid plan is 'let's do nothing and see what happens'

empty whippet box posted:

'relentlessly pushing vaccines'

he tweeted 'please get the vaccine' a couple times lol

LanceHunter posted:

Latest tactic for anti-vaxx arguments: Just make up outright lies about history!

https://twitter.com/Caulimovirus/status/1430232960918331392?s=20

EDIT: Oh great, and the person sharing the lie is a Republican running for Congress...

frogge posted:

I'm starting to notice a lot of "I'm not anti-vax, but I am against vaccine mandates" posts on reddit and social media. Anyone else? Really feels it's some sort of astroturfing campaign to hinder vaccine mandates and/or people really are that dumb.

Anne Whateley posted:

False positives are much less common than false negatives. False negatives are extremely common with the rapid test. Sorry

frogge posted:

I'm starting to notice a lot of "I'm not anti-vax, but I am against vaccine mandates" posts on reddit and social media. Anyone else? Really feels it's some sort of astroturfing campaign to hinder vaccine mandates and/or people really are that dumb.

Lazyhound posted:

This was your breaking point for “America is bad”? Not the racial oppression or war crimes?

Charliegrs posted:

The cold and flu seem to be pretty rare these days so chances are of you're sick it's loving covid and stay the gently caress away from people. There really needs to be more education about this.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

There's been a whole long line of arguments for 'let's do nothing and see what happens' and they've all been stupid bullshit, but you know it'll just be a matter of time until they come up with a new one

- We stopped the flights, the virus won't get in
- We got 15 cases but by this time next week they'll be down to zero
- The virus will disappear in the warmer weather
- Only the elderly and obese get really sick, for everyone else it's just the flu
- The elderly are all vaxxed, kids can't catch it and all adults have access to the vaccine, it's down to personal choice
- Maybe we're at herd immunity already?
- Cases might be up but hospitalizations & deaths are staying down
- It's endemic, we just have to learn to live with it

Zugzwang posted:

Humanity is too dumb to handle the power of social media.

frogge posted:

I'm starting to notice a lot of "I'm not anti-vax, but I am against vaccine mandates" posts on reddit and social media. Anyone else? Really feels it's some sort of astroturfing campaign to hinder vaccine mandates and/or people really are that dumb.

Anne Whateley posted:

False positives are much less common than false negatives. False negatives are extremely common with the rapid test. Sorry

Zugzwang posted:

Humanity is too dumb to handle the power of social media.

Decon posted:

Which is hilarious because COVID was a loving layup for him, but instead of just dunking on the Dems he decided to downplay a virus he acknowledged as dangerous in an interview he did in February... because reasons? And then proceeded to hamstring the attempts to limit spread because he couldn't dare be wrong about his insistence it's "just a flu". And now that his base is dying in droves, he's begging them to get vaxxed and they're turning on him for it and it's hilarious.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

"Reasons" in this case being he and all his buddies are commercial landlords and guess who gets most hosed up if the economy moves more towards remote working and mail order? Like if you're looking for the real x factor in why right-wing nutters are so gung-ho against any kind of precautions against covid above and beyond their usual oppositional defiant disorder, it really is as simple as that.

KOMO posted:

SEATTLE – King County is the nation’s first large county to surpass the 70 percent threshold for COVID-19 vaccinations.

King County Executive Dow Constantine said Tuesday morning 71 percent of eligible residents ages 12 or older have gotten at least one dose.

“As I've said all along, this pandemic will end one shot at a time, and no community would be left behind,” Constantine said. “Our community outreach, school clinics, and partnerships across King County have helped save lives and keep more people safe from the Delta variant. From young people to community organizations that reach communities of color, everyone in King County is stepping up to do their part and keep one another safe from this dangerous virus.”
The news comes a day after the FDA approved the Pfizer Biotech vaccine and health leaders say they suspect this means the vaccination rate will continue to rise at home.

"This is an important milestone and remarkable achievement, but as the current Delta surge shows, we still have too many eligible and unprotected," said Dr. Jeff Duchin, Health Officer for Public Health – Seattle & King County. "The full approval of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine by FDA should reassure anyone who has been reluctant to be vaccinated with the emergency use authorization. This vaccine now officially meets the same safety and effectiveness standard as all other routinely available vaccines."

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Scam Likely : drat, tested positive. Feeling like poo poo.

Covid denier : What month did you get the vaccine? I'm going to guess January or February

: 2nd shot was April 9th
Feels like the flu, Mrs. Scam Likely tested positive too.

: That's not good. I know one person who got sick but they didn't test so they never got it. Ha
Also my wife got sick but tested negative

: Yeah I tested negative Monday, but positive today when it felt worse.
Both rapid tests, PCR results come in about 3 days.

: It's a very strange month to be getting a flu like virus
I would understand if it was December
Maybe asymptomatic is not a thing. Maybe it is
So you test every day at work?
Maybe the bacteria on your mask? Maybe the water in your building? Maybe a virus?
Maybe your immune system is compromised slightly from the vaccine? I am obviously a reject. [sic]

: It's Covid, but you're welcome to come up with your own theories. Be safe out there.

: Do you know if it's the variant?
I heard there is no test for that.

: Didn't spring for the DNA evaluation, maybe they'll do that as part of the PCR test?

: They just blanket everyone with variant speculation

: Nah, I think they do sequence genomes of some samples, but that's not something I have any control over.

: Maybe the Wuhan lab can help with that

: Or the CDC lol

: I'm sure Wuhan has the antidote

: My head is pounding though, stupid sinuses

: Bogus

: Every time it thumps I hear a faint voice. It sounds like it's saying "re... set... re... set..."
*Picture of MD form showing positive case*

Scam Likely posted:

My covid-denier instagram buddy is on a roll now that I've tested positive.

Theres more with plenty of Ivermectin and Glutathione charts he's sending. He says drinking orange juice is dangerous because of the sugar. lol

Zugzwang posted:

This turned out to be his plan, when he said in October 2020 that he had a plan to beat covid while Trump didn’t.

Scam Likely posted: